Modern India: Jawaharlal Nehru in his famous Nehru hat Who ruled India and Pakistan after independence? India became independent in 1946. Jawaharlal Nehru, the son of a powerful Congress leader, was [...]
Maharani Tarabai, ruler of the Maratha Empire ca. 1700 AD Queens Soyarabai and Tarabai Shivaji Bhonsle died, probably of dysentery, at 52, in 1680 AD. His sons Sambhaji and Rajaram ruled the [...]
Indian National Congress (1885) with Gandhi in it Indian National Congress By the 1880s, India was becoming a very poor country. That was because the British government made all their choices [...]
Deccan kingdoms: Krishna Deva Raya (possibly), ca. 1500 AD India when Europeans arrived In 1498 AD, when Vasco da Gama first sailed to Calicut in south India, most of South India was part [...]
British India: Muhammed Shah, Mughal emperor 1702-1748 End of the Mughal Empire In the early 1700s, the Mughal Empire was collapsing. The Mughal emperors couldn't really control it anymore, and India was [...]
India's economy recovers: Shipping Indian grain overseas during the Great Famine (Madras, 1876) The British pillage India's wealth All through the 1800s, the British Empire forced India to sell them [...]
Japanese painting of Portuguese bringing Indian cargo to Japan (1500s AD) - the Mughal Indian Economy Trade under the Mughals Under the Mughal Empire, India continued to make a lot of money [...]
Greek warfare: hoplite soldiers (Chigi Vase, ca. 650 BC) Wars were very common in ancient Greece. The Greeks lived in little city-states, each one like a small town in the United [...]
Greek hoplites and democracy - a Corinthian helmet from the 600s BC Hoplites needed armor When the Greek city-states turned to this new hoplite way of fighting, it meant that each man [...]
Ancient Greek soldiers - Greek hoplites in a phalanx formation (Chigi Vase, ca. 650 BC) Before the hoplite phalanx In the Bronze Age, and in the early part of the [...]
